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- Published / Created:
- [1 August 1787]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 66. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man canters in profile to the left on a lean and broken-kneed horse whose hind-quarter is branded. He has only one rein attached to ill-fitting harness, and sits with his leg thrust forward and holds a club against his right shoulder. Behind him (right) is a signpost: 'The Bridle Way to Horse-Lydown' (a pun on Horselydown, Southwark). In the background are trees and (left) the Thames with ships."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Plate from: An academy for grown horsemen ... / by Geoffrey Gambado [pseud.] ... London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787., Temporary local subject terms: Broken kneed horse -- Branded horse -- Signpost: The Bridie Way to Horse-ly Down -- Ships on the Thames., Mounted on page 66 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on laid paper ; sheet 23.0 x 18.9 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Augst. 1st, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Horseback riding, Traffic signs & signals, and Ships
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A bit of blood [graphic]